city history and system to course allegiance to the regime. those who don't make it into the fun metropolis often feel very. tough on n.p.r. news starts february 28th on w. . this is the news asia coming up oscar history in the united states made in south korea side wins best picture of the also goes up fast but i'm not in the ending 100 euros of the academy awards actions from south korea plus. sorrow in thailand as a country mourns its wast that killed dozens in a shopping mall. and the virus spreading racism faster than infectious people of chinese origin in patters become targets of xenophobia. virus transmission.

welcome to. it's good to have you with us on a historic day nearly 100 yeahs in the making for the 1st time a non english film has won best picture at the oscars as part of sight directed by bono who winning the top of all for this piece making. education cultural. times come close. to some to be sure.

pop comedy pop thriller. now forever in the history books a fact not lost on director who who hopes this is the start of something new in one cinema and you'll notice what it's all so it's the 1st time for korean cinema. it's for the 1st time so cinema it's about right now it seems like a huge exception but i think soon come to a day when all this feels natural and this will no longer be a big issue. the big issue there being a recognition for good quality sort of respect of for its language let's get the view from seoul where correspondent frank smith is standing by good to see you frank what has the reaction been in south korea to this when well it's been tremendous here if you looked online or on television or in a newspaper. in the win of paris 8 at the cannes me awards lead all reports

also when you talk to people in the streets they knew what they were talking about as well because this is the highest grossing film and in south korean film history and it grossed more than 165000000 around the world so it has been a popular film and a crossover film bunghole is also known for a couple other films that that made the great internationally snowpiercer and the host but this is a real breakthrough at the academy awards and and people on the street here in south korea again it didn't come as a big surprise and they had kind of some sophisticated responses to what made this film and the director so special. to that means over the past only i felt that phone june host directing skills departed from the standard pattern of delivering moralizing messages to the audience and the international community cake good press

to his movie because of the issues he brought up with his unique style of directing gaga to. bung june ho's intention was to get people to think about communal life rather than individual ism i think he wanted to show that poverty can be passed down through family and it's not just about the individual which can lead to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer because in the one some very interesting responses there frank not bad aside it isn't the only south korean entertainment export to make a mark in the wild in recent years you have the cape bob phenomenon of course that is korean pop songs which have exploded onto the world stage what is driving this excellence in south korean entertainment creativity. well i think we need to go back actually a boat 2 decades to the to the 990 s. when the government said when they were going to push their cultural content especially around age some fields like winter sonata and then as you mention keep

up of course we recently had scion his some gung m. style which was you know the most viewed song on you tube for for some period of time and recently of course p.t.'s with their world when tour recently wrapping up so there are a couple of things those breakthroughs i mentioned and also the government support something like one percent of the government budget or a $1000000000.00 went into cultural content and really pushed that heavily you that korean wave around asia and now around the world as to who says in one of his acceptance speeches he talked about how this korean film perhaps crossed that one in spirit that subtitle barrier. for international content foreign language content to be more accepted around the world and what across what has been frank's methods are all thank you very much for that.

time is a morning often a mosque to turn over the weekend left at least 29 people most were killed at the shopping center in the country's north often a heavily armed soldier reportedly angry over the property went on a shooting rampage police eventually corner of the soldier and shot him dead often an operation but by then what. had already left many is innocent victims and it's weak. thailand is hard. to reach relatives are taking the bodies of their loved ones home this a member of thai special forces killed in the weekend shooting spree one among dozens. elsewhere families waited for information though sirat already knew what was coming. her sister had been in the shopping mall

with her family. one place in the evening someone sent me a photo showing my sister's body lying with her arm around her child. what about the father. he was nearby with blood all over his face footage has emerged from inside the siege. as terrified shoppers made their daring escape. the way some were fleeing the danger others were running towards it including a civilian drone operator who volunteered to go inside the mall to help corner the killer. using his flying camera he led police to the storage unit where the gunman lay waiting he charges the lights off when the drone nears police pounced shooting the rock soldier and ending the massacre. outside the mall

tributes are growing moms and dads holding their babies that little bit tighter today this massacre has shattered the peace here. and. i feel scared because the incident just happened but i'm not sure of that feeling will fade away. bunny i feel very scared even now because it happened so close to my house. just yards away and teens clean the blood stains but after the washed mass shooting in this country's history some matters will take more time like investigating whether this tragedy could have been prevented. where more than 100 people dead the fatalities from the corona virus have surpassed those from the sars infection in 2003 despite that health experts estimate that the peak in cases of corona virus hasn't yet been reached but the fear around its

spread has made those of chinese descent targets of discrimination such as here in europe did have a correspondence on your family went to chinatown in paris to find out more a basement in paris is chinatown. these elaborate costumes were meant for the annual chinese new year parade that draws thousands of spectators but for the 1st time the event was called off the sea or suddenly 10 was a regular participant blames the coronavirus and the stigma if you would a certain you know part of the right was cancelled not out of fear of the coronavirus but the fear of children being stigmatized with being told that eyes and children are coming back from school crying because they were singled out and made fun of they were insulted and called names so we didn't feel like celebrating that it's been very tough it suddenly turned grew up in this neighborhood a melting pot known for its 960 s. high rise apartment blocks and dozens of east asian stores and restaurants the

freshman is of chinese and cambodian descent and says he never really experienced racism openly in paris until a week ago. it was upon him it. took the metro and as i sat down the person next to me got up and moved away and then he covered his mouth and nose with a scuff i realized it was a form of xenophobia and fear i was sad and shocked but it's far from being an isolated case accounts of prejudice avoidance and slows a piling up in france stalking unease. here in south eastern paris the city's main chinatown which is home to a large numbers of france's ition community the usually bustling neighborhood seems a bit subdued many residents a wary of speaking on camera but some are clearly rattled by incidents off with this abuse amid fears of the. enemy and what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called

a virus in the metro that's not very nice but. our customers wanted to know if our waiters had chinese nationality even though ours is a vietnamese restaurant seeing asian faces didn't reassure them that the democrats really given free rein to racism against asians something which in france is not really talked about and not taken seriously the issue was revoked aerated across the french media on the banks of the river sin. journalist lynn lundahl has been following accounts by french asians of being targeted using the now popular hashtag i am not a bias it's like it's a french drain. she has long campaign that gets and racism in france but nothing prepared her for these responses to an article on the coronavirus in china she translates into english you shouldn't have weird beast this is normal they would do anything in that country the country is overcrowded to nature is doing its work

this is horrible like people they have no empathy we're just talking about sick people some of them they were sick say racist things like a virus is just a pretext to be hateful you want to clear said she was trying to deal with little and has been speaking out against the heat on talk shows and on social media because she's also hit out at sections of own profession for example for this headline in the local newspaper warning of a yellow alert so far france has recorded only a few cases of the coronavirus if the numbers go up the fear is the prejudice could spread just the smallest. over in china before the doctor walked off the new year holiday was that breaks tended to slow the spread of the coronavirus we live in now with a look at the streets of feeding the city of 22000000 visitors on the 1st day back to quote with you tomorrow.

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and the japanese entrepreneur shows how to tackle the plastic bottle epidemic one that i that. this is business as are your days when i as an employer will business news here on the w m d a how to office south korean movie parasites who made history at the oscars last night by becoming the 1st ever non english language movie to in best picture that was one of 4 awards won by a movie that only cost $11000000.00 to make it has taken in close to $170000000.00 at the box office where that figure is likely to shoot up dramatically on the back of its triumph in los angeles last night south korea has one of the most lucrative movie markets in the world grows box office revenue was $1600000000.00 in $28000.00 the 5th biggest in the world behind the u.s. china japan and the u.k. and just over half of that revenue comes from domestic korean movies.